On this page you find a fascinating story of the race, illustrated with many photographs and including some important links. It presents
list of the 30 entrants into the race, along with their aeroplanes and country of origin. Two of them are also found on my website Jules Védrines(9)
André Beaumont (1) Gustav Hamel (24) James Valentine (14) H.J.D.Astley (2)
E.Audemars (13) S.F.Cody (20)
G.Blanchet (11)
C.Howard Pixton (19)
C.Compton-Paterson (7)
Olivier de Montalent (23)
C.P.Pizey (17) C.T.Weymann (28)
Lt.Reynolds, R.E. (25) Lt.H.Bier + passenger (30) B.C.Hucks (27)
Lt.R.A.Cammell, R.E. (12)
I am sure you will want to read the whole interesting story of this historic event. You can access the site by
clicking on the title above.

ONLINE RESOURCES - 2

If you search for "Etrich Monoplane", using the Google search engine, (8-24-06), you will
find at least 81 links. Among the most helpful are the following.

He was born in Odessa (Ukraine) on 11th October 1886. He received his pilot licence (N° 41) in
Warsaw the 25th August 1911 on Etrich airplane.
He carried out a lot of raids, amongst which more notably are the Karlsbad - Marienbad -
Franzsesbad of 185 km and the Milan - Turin.
After becoming a pilot of the Associates Caproni & Faccanoni of Vizzola Ticino, on 23rd
January 1913 the world-wide record of speed with passenger in closed circuit of 5 km was adjudicated covering km 200 in 1 hour, 56 minutes and 30 seconds and km 250 in 2 hours, 24 minutes and 30 seconds.
In the same day the following world-wide records were adjudicated too:
the 2 hours with 206,250 km;
the 2 hours and average with 265,779 km;
the Italian record of the 5 km in 3';
the 10 km in 6';
the 20 km in 11' 55 ";
the 30 km in 17' 49 ";
the 100 km in 57' 45 ";
the 150 km in hours 1,27' 35 ";
beyond to the record of height with m 1,060 in 9'.

I have no information as to the dates of his birth or his death.

Editor's Note:
If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator
please contact me.
E-mail to Ralph Cooper